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The Voluntary Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1094-1">Edward Mould</rs>
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taken before me<del>James</del>
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Esqr. one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ113">Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo464">County of Essex</rs>
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this<lb></lb>
23d. day of March 1772 who<del>Saith</del>
being now<lb></lb>
brought before me & charged with feloniously<lb></lb>
Stealing several Trusses of Hay the property of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1094-3">James Barwick</rs>
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Esqr. Saith</p>
<p n="1095">That last Monday se'night he took a loads of Hay the<lb></lb>
property of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1095-1">James Barwick</rs>
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Esqr. from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo465">Waltham</rs>
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Holy<lb></lb>
Cross in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo466">County of Essex</rs>
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to one Mr. Westory in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo467">the Borough</rs>
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and that he took Two Trusses more than the said two<lb></lb>
load from the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Stack of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1095-2">James Barwick</rs>
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Esqr. and<lb></lb>
that he sold those two Trusses of Hay for Two shillings one to Thomas<lb></lb>
the other at the Basing house & another to a Stranger at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo469">Shoreditch</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo470">Middlesex</rs>
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and that the gave <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1095-3">George Bosworth</rs>
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the Boy who assisted<lb></lb>
him in driving one of the said loads to London Six pence out of the<lb></lb>
said Two shillings and further that<del>in</del>
for some Months past<lb></lb>
since he hath worked for Mr. Barwick he hath made a practice<lb></lb>
of the king a Truss of Hay more than the load in every load of<lb></lb>
Hay which he took to London for the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1095-4">James Barwick</rs>
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<del>and</del>
for his own benefit</p>
<p n="1096">Taken before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1096-1">Edwd: Parker</rs>
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Mould</rs>
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